There’s so much going on over the course of this weekend that you won’t want to miss any of it! From live music, arts, shopping, and so much food, including the famous chili cook-off!

The festivities begin on Thursday, October 3rd with a concert in downtown Varina District by Chairmen of the Board. This concert is held outside, rain or shine. Bring your lawn chairs, but not your pets! Can’t get enough music? Come back out all day on Saturday, October 5, 10 am- 4 pm to see all this FREE music:

• Paige King Johnson 11am – 1230 Beer Garden
• Crush 1pm -4pm Beer Garden
• City Dirt Trio 1130 am Main Street Stage
• Garland Mason – 2pm Main Street Stage
• Jason Damico & Maverick Rose – 11am – 12pm Community Showcase
• Whiskey Pines – 1230 – 2pm Community Showcase
• Tony Drake Trio 230pm – 4pm Community Showcase

And so much more!

Artist Village

KidZone and Rock Wall – The Kid Zone offers free mechanical rides from 10 am – 4 pm. The free Rock Wall offers thrills for older kids.

Food Trucks – More information on Food Trucks is coming soon!

Mayor’s Walk – Starting at 1pm at the Main Street Tent

Museum Tours – The museum complex will be open during the Celebrate Fuquay festival

Chili Cook-off – Individuals, businesses and non-profit groups show off their cooking skills and compete for prize money and bragging rights! Attendees vote to determine the People’s Choice winner. A panel of judges determine 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners through a blind-tasting. Tasting begins at 11am until the chili is gone…come early!

And of course, stop by the Front Porch Realty booth and say hi! Agents will be around for some casual, no obligation, local real estate conversation!

Congratulations to Dave Matthews for selling more real estate in the month of August than any other Front Porch Realty agent!

Dave’s got all the bases covered. He was born and raised in Angier, so he knows Harnett and Wake counties well. He’s spent most of his life helping others, first as a nurse for 20 years, he learned to be a strong advocate for his clients. Then, as a father of 3 pre-teen and teen girls, he learned to be a strong negotiator. He would love to help you through the home buying process and finding your perfect home in this community.

Give him a call today!

Visit Dave’s website and view his listings here.

Phone – 919.995.4089
Email – bigdaverealtor@gmail.com

What is Labor Day and why do we celebrate? There have been several official start dates for Labor Day. It seems it actually started in Toronto, Canada in 1872 before being celebrated for the first time in New York City in 1882. Oregon was the first state to make it an official holiday in 1887. Labor Day began as a demonstration for workers rights but has evolved into a celebration and recognition of the last unofficial day of summer and officially the last appropriate time to wear white. Although, Emily Post says that’s not true anymore, especially in warmer climates like ours here in North Carolina. So go ahead and wear your white shoes, pants, anything you want and celebrate!

Here are a few activities we found happening in the Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs area for the holiday.

Rock Solid Warrior Labor Day Grand Opening Celebration is happening Monday, September 2nd from 7am – 1130pm. Check here for more details! Something for all ages and fitness levels!

5-Year Anniversary Walk Around Bass Lake! Monday, September 2nd at 630pm. Come on out for a 1.75 mile walk and celebrate the 5-year anniversary of this meet-up group! This is a great event for first-timers to come out and meet some fellow members. As always, dogs and kids are more than welcome to come along as well. We will go counter-clockwise around the lake, so if you arrive late, just head clockwise and eventually we will run into each other.

Once again Front Porch Realty has taken an in depth look at our local housing market. See our snapshot HERE. According to our Triangle MLS data, housing inventory is up 5-10% from Q1 which is great to see, however most pricing markets in our corner of the Triangle are still showing a very low supply of housing inventory especially in the under $400,000 sales price market.

FRONT PORCH REALTY continues to grow and provide the residents of Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs a LOCAL professional real estate firm to handle their real estate transactions. We love moving our residents into, and across town, and showing off all we have to offer. If you haven’t had a chance to glance at our website, please take a moment, we love showing off how special our towns are!
We are here to help you, your relatives, co-workers, employees, and neighbors.

Stop by one of our offices, send us a message, or give us a call and let us help you get moving too!

Front Porch Realty and Front Porch Realty Holly Springs have once again teamed up with the local Coldwell Banker HPW office to gather school supplies for local schools. Our school supply drive has always been extremely successful, thanks to all of you! The students and the teachers are extremely grateful for our support!

We will collect through the month of August. Drop off locations include:
Front Porch Realty Fuquay-Varina office – 604 N Main Street Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
Coldwell Banker HPW office – 528 N Main Street Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
Front Porch Realty Holly Springs office – 208 Premier Drive Holly Springs, NC 27540

School supply lists:
Fuquay-Varina Elementary School
Fuquay-Varina Middle School
Holly Ridge Elementary
Herbert Akins Elementary
Lincoln Heights Elementary

The lists above can give you an idea of what the students and teachers need this year. But don’t feel like you have to stick strictly to these lists. We’ll take any new items and make sure they get delivered to the right people. Thank you again for your help in this way! This is something we look forward to every year.